Over 2000 Homes Without Power on Monday Night in Chelmsford
Estimates on recovery times are expected later today.
According to National Grid estimates, over 2,000 homes, if not more, were estimated without power throughout Chelmsford on Monday night due to Hurricane Sandy, which estimated recovery times expected sometime today.
After a slow recovery from last year's storm brought grilling from local officials, this year National Grid pledges it has learned from its mistakes, although no estimated recovery times will be available until sometime this morning.
The majority of the outages were near the town center, with many in North Chelmsford and near Old Westford Road.
Here are just a few of the updates you gave us about your neighborhoods on our Facebook page.
- Biscayne Drive has been without power since 3 p.m., Warren Avenue from Turnpike to Porter is also without power.
- Rainbow Avenue was without power at approximately 4 p.m.
- Moonbeam Avenue lost power at approximately 3 p.m.
- Trees fell on wires on Carlisle Street, part of the road was blocked off at around 5 p.m.
- Portions of Chelmsford Street were without power at around 7 p.m.
- Proctor Road did have power at around 8 p.m.
- School is cancelled for Tuesday.
We will be throughout the area providing further updates here on Patch as well as on social media.
DP
3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Power has been out on the Chelmsford/westford line on graniteville since 230 yesterday afternoon. A tree is blocking off graniteville completely.
Jules
3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Elm Street is closed and blocked off. Power is out on Elm Street and Natalie Rd.
NO sign of anyone who cares..
John Gault
3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Are there any updates? Has anyone got power back yet? According to the website, there are NO times for repair on any location.
Sue Davis
3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
How do we get an update on restoring power? The National Grid outage number is not working.
Barbara
3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Boston Rd and side streets out since about 2 pm yesterday. Drove around this morning and guess what...No National Grid trucks in site! Not unusual but I thought it wold be different his time around!
Hilary Anderson
4:09 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Queen st off of Mill is also out, since last night at 7pm.
Ian Cruzen
7:38 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Agree.. Haven't seen a truck at all.. Rainbow Ave still says "assessing situation"... Grr
Ian Cruzen
7:48 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
So electric companies were told to get specific on restoration times so instead of being "location specific" on their outage map, they gave a blanket estimation. Well played NationalGrid.. Well played. Once again Chelmsford has not managed power outage issues well... God forbid we have a catastrophic event. Not feeling good about our town management.
Stephen Steele
8:25 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Agree about no one having seen any trucks at all. Brian Road and Parker and Hall roads still all out.
Sue Davis
8:39 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
We had no problems like this when Mass Electric was our electric company.
dlbdarwin
9:14 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
No trucks seen at all. National Grid is NOT working 24/7, I kept track of the outage numbers on their website and they did not budge for any town in Middlesex county from midnight to 6am. The map itself is completely useless.
Living in the Westlands area I was hoping that Market Basket would have some pull with the town especially as they watch Stop and Shop operate with full power. I feel bad for the ppl running the Halloween store, bye bye your best 3 days of shopping.
Barbara
9:44 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Steve...our street is the only one without power, hall and Parker got it back last night!
Stephen Steele
10:46 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Well thanks for that Barbara! Guess that is some kind of visible progress. Getting more info from this board than from the national grid sites that's for sure.
dlbdarwin
10:41 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
btw according to NG's website they've managed in the last hour to actually knock out power to an additional 200 homes in Chelmsford. Well done!
Kathleen
12:07 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Response is not much better than the last storm.
We still have no power in the Westlands and that includes Market Basket.
Not as bad off as the folks in NY and NJ for sure, but still an inconvenience.